Country Concordances

Summary

Country concordance is in

Proxies

Proxies are used when a certain country does not have data points and estimates are needed. Proxies should be used on a case by case basis and for certain series. Proxies essentially use a similar country to the country being approximated (in terms of population, GDP, etc) and calculates the scale of what the approximated countries value should be.

An example from IHME's series is Kosovo and Albania. Albania is similar and geographically close to Kosovo making it an iedal for a proxy. For a series that deals with death such as SocietalViolenceDeathsTotal use the following equation:

• Kosovo’s number of deaths = Albania’s number of deaths * (Kosovo’s Population / Albania’s Population)

World Bank

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IFs Countries	World Bank Countries

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IFs Countries	IMF Countries

Food Agricultural Organization (FAO)

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IFs Countries	FAO Countries

World Health Organization (WHO)

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IFs Countries	WHO Countries

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

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IFs Countries	IHME Countries